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Emilio's eyes widened in shock and pain as the bullet hit him in his chest. He looked around and saw Shorty staring in mute horror at him, saw one of Shorty's crack-head friends staring at the smoking end of the gun he was holding, and saw them all turn and scatter. Emilio felt a throbbing pain in his chest and looking down, he saw his life's blood oozing from the gun-shot wound. He dropped his own gun and slapped his hands on his chest, vaguely remembering being told that applying pressure to a wound stops it from bleeding. But he was weak, and the blood pumped through his fingers as he sank to the ground. He heard someone shout, heard the pounding of feet on the asphalt and saw someone lean over him, though who it was he couldn't tell. His vision blurred, his breathing slowed, and Emilio began to feel cold. He thought he heard someone telling him to stay awake, and he thought that was strange when he was so obviously not asleep. But now that they mentioned it, sleep didn't sound like a bad idea at all to Emilio. He closed his eyes, but quickly opened them again when someone started roughly shaking him. He raised his hand to push the people away from him, but found that no one moved. In the distance, Emilio became vaguely aware of the sound of sirens, but they were replaced with the sounds of people talking all around him. He couldn't make out their words, instead just hearing noise, and he closed his eyes, trying to block it out. The thought of Angela once again crossed his mind, and he could picture her face when she found out about the shit he'd got himself into again. But she would forgive him; she always did, and that was the last thought to ever cross the mind of Emilio Ramirez.
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night." – Dylan Thomas
The End.
A/N: I hope you liked this. It just popped into my head when I was watching 'Dangerous Minds', and there aren't many, in fact there aren't any, fanfictions about 'Dangerous Minds'. Emilio is my favourite character from the film – don't ask me why because I don't know!